Piracy websites should adopt Midjourney's arguments on copyright:

"Look bro, it's just too hard to figure out what license governs each and every file and who its author is."

@siguza midjourney basically reworded "womp womp cry more"
@siguza if piracy websites made millions of dollars their lawyers probably would use that argument
@kolya @siguza s/made millions of dollars/bled hundreds of millions of dollars of VC funds/
@steve @siguza
okay, yah. "if they made millions" was a shorthand for: "if everyone expected to make millions of their tech and created an economical bubble based on the promise of future layoffs"
@kolya @steve "based on the promise of future layoffs" - I never thought something plain and true could sound so savage. I'll have to remember that phrase.
@siguza AI just finally shows what pirates have known for ages now: [Copyright is dead. And we have killed it.](https://copyfree.org/content/standard/licenses/nietzschepl/license.txt)
@the_moep @siguza © is dead. © remains dead. And we have killed it. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become © simply to appear worthy of it?
@the_moep I wish. But of course the current reality is that there is an in-group whom the law protects but does not bind, and an out-group whom the law binds but does not protect...

@siguza

And AIartists should adopt the pirate practices - just disregard copyright nonsense and do the right thing 😀

@siguza Isn’t “DMCA claim” link somewhere in the footer basically that?
@siguza Well, they've done this for a long time : "Hey man, if i violate your rights, just drop me a mail, i'll retire the link ! No hard feelings !"
@agarwaen @siguza It sounds so chummy when they say that to me. But then I realize that they tell the same thing to millions of people. They're betting on the idea that asking for forgiveness is cheaper than getting permission. And they're earning a lot of money that way.
@siguza just word for word submit the same response text they did
@Emily_S fight two lawsuits at the same time and just copy-paste your opponents' arguments against each other. Like that little boy who proxied the moves of chess grand masters against one another.
@siguza just disguise the next filesharing service as an AI, which surfaces it's training data.
Problem solved!
@mxk instead of a download link, it gives you a string that looks like an AI prompt that you can copy-paste into a text field on the website. Any unknown prompt will just give you about 70MB of /dev/random.
@siguza
And link to Midjourney's TOS-or-wherever-copyright-noncompliance-is.